Ma Pettengill

By: Wilson, Harry Leon

Book Excerpt: lieved it--butwould go over it again if I didn't understand. Though not always startingat command, the lady has really a full habit of speech.I told you about whales, didn't I? Whales started it--whales for tableuse. It come in the Sunday paper--with the picture of a handsome whaleand the picture of a French cook kissing his fingers over the way he hascooked some of it; and the picture of a pleased young couple eating whalein a swell restaurant; and the picture of a fair young bride in herkitchenette cutting up three cents' worth of whale meat into a chafingdish and saying how glad she was to have something tasty and cheap fordearie's lunch; and the picture of a poor labouring man being told bysomeone down in Washington, D.C., that's making a dollar a year, thata nickel's worth of prime whale meat has more actual nourishment than adollar's worth of porterhouse steak; and so on, till you'd think theworld's food troubles was going to be settled in jig time; all peoplehad to do was to go out anRead More

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN13: 9798718251937
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"